Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 223 291
Rank change year-on-year -82 +68 -74
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 509 566 940
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.36% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.46% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 215 310 532
10th Percentile £42,446 £45,000 £41,300
25th Percentile £54,633 £56,357 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £110,125 £111,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £64,814 £58,700
% change year-on-year -2.68% +10.41% -6.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,999 38,652 81,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.50% 92.94% 86.02%
Number of salaries quoted 40,056 22,591 59,648
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,757
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.26%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 17 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -68 466 £67,500 -3.57% 189
London +39 284 £85,000 +13.33% 97
Work from Home +44 244 £71,001 +9.23% 95
UK excluding London -169 172 £63,076 -2.68% 116
North of England -34 63 £75,000 -6.25% 28
North West -7 38 £85,000 +6.12% 10
Midlands -63 34 £58,750 -6.00% 19
South East -134 27 £52,500 -19.23% 40
West Midlands -30 26 £57,500 -8.00% 8
East of England -12 25 £61,300 -5.69% 18
Yorkshire -47 22 £63,076 +94.08% 15
South West -76 16 £62,500 +4.17% 6
East Midlands -52 8 £116,250 +121.43% 11
Northern Ireland - 7 £75,000 - 2
Scotland -30 4 £55,000 +22.22% 4
North East -39 3 £63,076 -23.54% 3
Wales -28 2 £72,251 +20.71% 2

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 17 (3.34%) Confluence
3 11 (2.16%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.39%) CICS
5 2 (0.39%) CMS
5 2 (0.39%) MTS
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 35 (6.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 20 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.59%) Trello
7 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (3.93%) Workfront
2 6 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.59%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (14.73%) AWS
2 63 (12.38%) SaaS
3 50 (9.82%) Azure
4 34 (6.68%) iPaaS
5 21 (4.13%) GitHub
6 20 (3.93%) Power Platform
7 19 (3.73%) Pulumi
8 17 (3.34%) GitHub Copilot
9 14 (2.75%) GCP
10 12 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (1.77%) OneDrive
13 8 (1.57%) Asana
13 8 (1.57%) H2O.ai
13 8 (1.57%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.38%) Figma
15 5 (0.98%) PaaS
15 5 (0.98%) Snowflake
16 4 (0.79%) Google Analytics
16 4 (0.79%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 59 (11.59%) Broadband
2 23 (4.52%) HTTP
3 9 (1.77%) SD-WAN
3 9 (1.77%) WAN
4 6 (1.18%) LAN
4 6 (1.18%) RTP
5 4 (0.79%) NGN
6 3 (0.59%) Multicast
6 3 (0.59%) Network Security
6 3 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.59%) Wireless
7 2 (0.39%) Firewall
7 2 (0.39%) VPN
8 1 (0.20%) 4G
8 1 (0.20%) 5G
8 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.20%) MPLS
8 1 (0.20%) Skype
8 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.64%) Metadata
2 20 (3.93%) NoSQL
2 20 (3.93%) RDBMS
2 20 (3.93%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.54%) Power BI
4 9 (1.77%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.98%) Tableau
6 4 (0.79%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.59%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.39%) Big Data
8 2 (0.39%) DB2
9 1 (0.20%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (5.70%) JIRA
2 19 (3.73%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.20%) Git
3 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.20%) Selenium
General
1 185 (36.35%) Finance
2 166 (32.61%) Social Skills
3 151 (29.67%) Marketing
4 89 (17.49%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (16.31%) Banking
6 66 (12.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (11.39%) Retail
8 56 (11.00%) Law
9 47 (9.23%) Influencing Skills
10 41 (8.06%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (6.68%) Legal
12 29 (5.70%) Back Office
13 28 (5.50%) Public Sector
14 27 (5.30%) Financial Institution
15 22 (4.32%) Manufacturing
16 19 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (2.95%) Digital Economy
18 13 (2.55%) Italian Language
18 13 (2.55%) Retail Banking
19 12 (2.36%) German Language
Job Titles
1 143 (28.09%) Product Manager
2 85 (16.70%) Senior
3 71 (13.95%) Lead
4 56 (11.00%) Product Owner
5 43 (8.45%) Senior Manager
6 36 (7.07%) Senior Product Manager
7 24 (4.72%) Development Engineer
7 24 (4.72%) Software Engineer
8 23 (4.52%) Developer
8 23 (4.52%) Software Development Engineer
9 19 (3.73%) Consultant
10 18 (3.54%) Product Lead
11 17 (3.34%) Senior Development Engineer
11 17 (3.34%) Senior Software Development Engineer
11 17 (3.34%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (2.95%) Digital Product Manager
13 13 (2.55%) Business Consultant
13 13 (2.55%) Business Development Consultant
13 13 (2.55%) Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.11%) REST
2 19 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (3.73%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (1.57%) Keras
3 8 (1.57%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.57%) TensorFlow
4 5 (0.98%) YAML
5 3 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.39%) .NET
6 2 (0.39%) CSS
6 2 (0.39%) HTML
6 2 (0.39%) Spring
6 2 (0.39%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.20%) EDI
7 1 (0.20%) JSON
7 1 (0.20%) RESTful
7 1 (0.20%) SOAP
7 1 (0.20%) XML
7 1 (0.20%) XMPP
7 1 (0.20%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 134 (26.33%) Product Ownership
2 46 (9.04%) Social Media
3 36 (7.07%) Marketing Technology
4 35 (6.88%) Over-the-Top Content
5 33 (6.48%) Cloud Native
6 27 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (4.91%) Onboarding
8 24 (4.72%) Management Information System
8 24 (4.72%) Public Cloud
9 15 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.77%) Web Conferencing
11 8 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.57%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.38%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.38%) Podcast
12 7 (1.38%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (1.18%) IoT
13 6 (1.18%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.52%) Linux
2 19 (3.73%) Unix
3 6 (1.18%) Windows
4 2 (0.39%) zOS
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (59.33%) Roadmaps
2 239 (46.95%) Agile
3 150 (29.47%) Product Roadmap
4 111 (21.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 110 (21.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 107 (21.02%) Product Vision
7 104 (20.43%) AI
8 100 (19.65%) Mentoring
8 100 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
9 98 (19.25%) Decision-Making
10 92 (18.07%) Product Strategy
11 86 (16.90%) User Stories
12 74 (14.54%) User Experience
13 70 (13.75%) Analytics
14 67 (13.16%) Customer Experience
15 66 (12.97%) Product Backlog
16 63 (12.38%) Product Requirements
17 61 (11.98%) DevOps
18 60 (11.79%) Software Engineering
19 59 (11.59%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 47 (9.23%) Java
2 34 (6.68%) Python
3 25 (4.91%) JavaScript
4 20 (3.93%) Go
5 19 (3.73%) Bash
6 16 (3.14%) SQL
7 6 (1.18%) Bicep
8 5 (0.98%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.59%) R
10 2 (0.39%) C#
10 2 (0.39%) COBOL
10 2 (0.39%) JCL
10 2 (0.39%) PHP
10 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 86 (16.90%) Degree
2 26 (5.11%) Master's Degree
3 22 (4.32%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.93%) AWS Certification
4 20 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.14%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.38%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.18%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.18%) HNC
8 5 (0.98%) MBA
9 4 (0.79%) CISSP
10 3 (0.59%) CCNA
10 3 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.59%) HND
10 3 (0.59%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.59%) PMP
11 2 (0.39%) ACCA
11 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.39%) CISM
11 2 (0.39%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.11%) QA
2 11 (2.16%) Accessibility
2 11 (2.16%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.38%) GDPR
5 6 (1.18%) NCSC
5 6 (1.18%) PMO
6 5 (0.98%) NIST
7 4 (0.79%) SLA
8 3 (0.59%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.59%) PERC
9 2 (0.39%) COREP
9 2 (0.39%) FINREP
9 2 (0.39%) GRC
9 2 (0.39%) IFRS
9 2 (0.39%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.20%) GMP
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (4.52%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) RACF
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (6.48%) Terraform
2 23 (4.52%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.73%) Ansible
3 19 (3.73%) Argo
3 19 (3.73%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.73%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.39%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 47 (9.23%) Microsoft
2 43 (8.45%) Adobe
3 35 (6.88%) Google
4 9 (1.77%) Oracle
4 9 (1.77%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.57%) Databricks
5 8 (1.57%) Dell
5 8 (1.57%) NVIDIA
6 5 (0.98%) Cisco
6 5 (0.98%) Foundry
7 4 (0.79%) Facebook
7 4 (0.79%) Toshiba
7 4 (0.79%) YouTube
8 3 (0.59%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.59%) ION Trading
8 3 (0.59%) Patsystems
8 3 (0.59%) Reuters
8 3 (0.59%) Tenable
8 3 (0.59%) Trayport